And be it further enacted, That if any Person in any Affidavit or Affirmation to be taken before any Judge of His Majesty's, Courts at Westminster, or before any of the Barons of His Majesty's Courts of Exchequer in Scotland or Ireland reflectively, or before any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate under the Provisions of this Act, shall wilfully or corruptly swear or affirm any Matter or Thing which shall be false or untrue, every such Person so offending, and being thereof duly convicted, shall he, and is hereby declared to be subject and liable to such Pains and Penalties as by any Laws now in force any Persons convicted of wilful arid corrupt Perjury are subject and liable to.